Archive for Finance

Michael de Jong, BC Minister of Finance presents the 2016 Budget, and Economist Iglika Ivanova, from the Centre for Policy Alternatives, comments on how much emphasis? it gives to the individual freedoms and market economy rather than to social services and common wealth.
29 minute video.

Michael Schemmann, an ex-banker, explains the difference between money created as credit by a commercial bank , and money as currency created by the Bank of Canada; and Paul Grignon, the author of an animated video, explains “Money as Debt”.3 minute preview.

David Macdonald of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives in dialogue with Ion D. Moruso about the economy plus “Money and Debt” video clips.
3 minute highligths of the extended 29 minute video on โฆษณาเกมยิงปลา www.emptythebucket.com

Ecologist William Rees, the co-author of the Ecological Foot Print, and Jennie Moore from BCIT, spoke in Vancouver, Canada about the imminent danger of an ecological suicide. Part 1 of 2 -15 minute videos

Seth Klein, the director of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives in BC, alerts citizens of the deficiencies of our financial system, and on a follow up video, he offers some “Options for Raising New Revenues”.
15-minute video

Charles Lammam from the Fraser Institute, Seth Klein from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, and Jane Sterk from the Green Party of BC give their opinons on money, taxes, and budgets. BC Liberal and BC NDP politicians were invited, but we got no response by the recording dates: Feb. 7,11, and 14 , 2013
Part 1 of 2
29:30 minutes –

Representative democracy in Canada is increasingly delegating financial power to cabinet ministers who in turn are handing it over to Investment managers, from the banking sector. The problem is that human rights and direct democracy are not in the agenda of market capitalism.